“To protect patients’ privacy and adhere to federal law, compliance professionals must understand what online patient data is being tracked and used by their organization’s website, social media pages, and payment portals.”
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Christi Grimm, the Inspector General of HHS, gave a recent keynote address to compliance professionals. In it, she said, “Simply put, the financial incentives created by risk adjustment may be driving upcoding in the severity of diagnoses to garner additional payments.”
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Changes to PHE waivers and recommendations for hospitals. Compliance must assist and advise on policy, process, contractual, and operational changes by May 2023.
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Improve patient experience. Use the OIG’s seven elements to guide and align healthcare compliance with compassionate, quality patient care.
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Enforcement Actions: Sanctions and penalties for hiring excluded individuals in healthcare. Why is it crucial to avoid the risk of hiring excluded individuals? List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
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Avoid this million-dollar monitoring mistake. Help clinical colleagues apply their expertise to your scalable, repeatable healthcare compliance processes.
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Three corrective action plans demonstrate OCR’s expectations for HIPAA compliance. Equip the patient-facing team to meet OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
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The increase in telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries drives more scrutiny, audit, and enforcement actions by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
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The OIG’s Beneficiary Inducement Final Rule is part of HHS Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care – Advancing the transition to value-based care.
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